[mythtv] Invalid pointer de-ref in NuppelVideoRecorder.cpp

[Mark Spieth]

On 12/4/2019 3:20 AM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 8:09 AM Mark Kendall <mark.kendall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not familiar with NuppelVideoRecorder  (though IMHO it should
>> nuked/removed/deleted as soon as possible!).
> As I recall, while the NuppleVideo container may have
> been used by a few projects in the past, MythTV is
> now closer to being the last one standing, and pointed
> to as the definitive standard reference for others.
> Which is not likely to be a good place to be.
>
> I had thought at one point there were musings to
> announce the end of support in some future
> version, and at that announcement recommend
> people convert to a different container format to
> prepare (a container only copy should be fast,
> although perhaps annoying if you have a lot
> of such files), and remove the various support
> for the container (sort of like how XvMC was
> slowly removed).  But, of course, musings are
> not a plan, but more like a consideration to
> consider making a plan to make a plan.
>
My recollection of nuppelvideo is that it was a low cpu software video 
encoder for analog video recording.

This is before the new fangled multi core cpus and GPUs that you get 
today and before DVB/ATSC was broadcast which does not require encoding 
at all.

I still have an analog TV card or 2 here. No use any more of course and 
now you just buy an analog video usb devices which encode for you.

Mark